Titlebook: Letters from Barcelona; An American Woman in Gerd-Rainer Horn (Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Cen Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of

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Letters from Barcelona (Autumn),heroic and optimistic period of the Catalan Revolution, although signs of reflux of the revolutionary fervour characteristic of these months were plentiful — and are duly noted in Lois’ letters. Shortly after the arrival of the Orrs in Barcelona, the Catalan government underwent a reorganization, br

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Letters from Barcelona (Spring),he had worked for half a year on the Generalitat’s English-language bulletin. Having filled ‘downtime’ at the Generality with secretarial tasks for the POUM, she now devoted most of her time to this voluntary labour. In April 1937 Charles became a member of the POUM, with Lois remaining a critical o

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Reminiscences by Charles Orr,ten months. After obtaining a degree in economics, in the late 1920s Charles for a while worked for the International Labour Organisation in Geneva. A cultured and articulate man, by the mid-1930s Charles became a leading activist in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, branch of the Young People’s Socialist Le

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,In Stalin’s Secret Barcelona Jail,n. It was part of a crackdown operation nominally undertaken by Republican authorities, but instigated, inspired and supervised by Stalinist operatives then congregating in Spain. As the hot spot of revolutionary activity anywhere in Europe at the time, Barcelona had become the temporary home of ant

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(Auto-)Biographical Notes by Lois Orr,scripts of an interview held on 9 January 1983 in Louisville, Kentucky. I thank Ellen Poteet for transcribing the tape for me, which is held in the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan’s main Ann Arbor library. To convey some of the flavour of the interview and the personality of the mai

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